Tickets for the first 12 performances of the 14th İstanbul International Jazz Festival will go on sale Saturday, May 12 on www.biletix.com.
The festival, organized by the İstanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), will take place July 3-17, featuring stars such as Robert Plant, Bryan Ferry, Robin Gibb and Wynton Marsalis. Festival venues include the Harbiye Open-air Theater, the Hagia Irene Museum and Esma Sultan Yalı.

BMI staged its 55th Annual Pop Awards on May 15, honoring the Bee Gees as Pop Icons.
A highlight of the ceremony was the musical tribute to legendary singing trio the Bee Gees.
The brothers Gibb were honored as BMI Icons for their “unique and indelible influence on generations of music makers.” Accepting the awards were Barry and Robin Gibb, and Yvonne Gibb, wife of the late Maurice Gibb.
The tribute saw American Idol finalist Katharine McPhee perform “Immortality,” Bebe Winans singing a medley of “Nights on Broadway” and “How Deep Is Your Love” and Kelly Rowland performing “Emotion.”
The musical partnership of Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb has produced some of the most timeless songs ever written, including “Night Fever,” “How Can You Mend a Broken Heart,” “Staying Alive,” “I Started a Joke,” “How Deep Is Your Love,” “Jive Talkin,” “You Should Be Dancing” and “Run To Me.”
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees signature three-part harmony has endured for more than four decades, and with this award they join an elite list of previous BMI Icons that includes Crosby, Stills & Nash, Paul Simon, James Brown, Brian Wilson, Isaac Hayes, Dolly Parton and Carlos Santana.
Source: bmi.com

Bee Gee Robin Gibb says he plans to campaign for a change to copyright laws on behalf of musicians in the UK.
Currently, performers in the UK receive royalty payments for 50 years, at which point their work goes out of copyright.

"Artists should be getting royalties for the records that they make for life," Gibb told the BBC News website.

The singer has just been made President of CISAC, a body representing creative artists around the world. Film director Alfonso Cuaron became Vice-President.

"I've been a songwriter since I was 8 years old," said Gibb. "I want to champion the rights of all those people who aren't getting a fair share from their creative work."

Record label

The 57-year-old said the Bee Gees had experienced several periods in their career where they did not control their music - including hits like Massachusetts and Jive Talkin'.

The singer said he wanted to make sure other artists did not suffer a similar fate.

"We were lucky because we had some good people working on our behalf, but the reality is that many do not," he said.

"There are still many major writers who still don't own their catalogue.

"It's a moral issue that people should get a bigger piece of the pie."

Gibb said his plans included creating a record label for UK artists, giving them easier access to digital download stores like iTunes.

Copyright recommendation

Earlier this year, the House of Commons culture committee said people had a "moral right" to keep control of their creations while alive.

It recommended extending the copyright term for sound recordings to at least 70 years, allowing performers to benefit from their early works throughout their lifetime.

The International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC) is comprised of 217 organisations which collect royalties and other payments for songwriters, novelists, screenwriters and others in the creative industry.

It indirectly represents 2.5m artists worldwide.
Gibb plays a homecoming concert on the Isle of Man this weekend

The same day, Paramount Home Entertainment will release a "special collector's edition" of "Saturday Night Fever," featuring new interviews with Bee Gees principals Barry and Robin Gibb.

The new edition of "Bee Gees Greatest" will feature the previously unreleased track "Warm Ride" plus an extended version of "Stayin' Alive" originally issued as a 12-inch promo vinyl single. There are also new remixes of "You Should Be Dancing," "How Deep Is Your Love," "Night Fever" and "If I Can't Have You."

The bulk of the album is drawn from the studio albums the Bee Gees released between 1975 and 1979, which spawned such hits as "Too Much Heaven," "Night Fever," "Love You Inside Out" and "Tragedy."